soft corals

1. REDIRECT Octocorallia

Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated {{circa|2022}}.{{cite WoRMS|author=McFadden, Cathy|date=2022-11-02|title=Alcyonacea. Lamouroux, 1812|id=1365|accessdate=2025-05-16}}{{cite journal |doi=10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735 |title=Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics |date=2022 |last1=McFadden |first1=Catherine S. |last2=Van Ofwegen |first2=Leen P. |last3=Quattrini |first3=Andrea M. |journal=Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists |volume=1 |issue=3 }}